Secret Data

On replication in economics. Just in time for bar-room discussions at the annual meetings. "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of t...

Tax Oped

Source: Wall Street Journal An Oped at the Wall Street Journal, " Here's what genuine tax reform looks like ." With a new art ...

Institutions and experience

These are remarks I prepared for a symposium at Hoover  in honor of George Shultz on his 95th birthday. Willie Brown was the star of the sym...

Tilting at Bubbles

Source: Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal reports on the " Fed's Unsolved Puzzle: How to Deflate Bubbles " (That...

Luke Skywalker and ISIS

Via Marginal Revolution, I found " The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker " interesting. Despised people -- terrorists; slaveholders...

Smith meet Jones

A while ago I wrote up a smorgasbord of policies that I thought could increase US economic growth, at least for a few decades, in " Eco...

Zoning and inequality

I am always pleased when economists normally thought of on different ends of the political spectrum come to the same conclusions. So it is w...